The New Fascism & The Islan.. Sorry.. The Product !

Rating: 7/10 (5 October 2009)

I read a lot about being a rip-off from (Logan's Run - 1976)?? Well, dear mistaken reviewers, it's more close to (THX 1138 - 1971) where the unexplained white customs and homes, the no convergence community, the protesting lead,.. etc. However, with a company this round as the ruler, not a tyrannical government.
It is a fine Hollywood movie that got the too bright image, the chases, the explosions, namely the fun, all in one package. I tried many times to find a plot hole, but this script is so-sly-it's-solid, predicting all the questions to already answer them somewhere in the movie, even swiftly. It's only slight matters like why they killed the woman that gave birth to the child?, how (Scarlett Johansson) reentered the foundation with a gun and nobody noticed?!, and how (Ewan McGregor) put the plastic bracelet around his original human's hand that quick?! But anyway, it is incontestably one of the finest, most complete, movies done by (Michael Bay) where, in such a rare time, the editing and the story harmonize smartly; which is something that I didn't witness in (Pearl Harbor - 2001), (Bad Boys 2 - 2003), or surely (Armageddon - 1999)! Although (McGregor) is so pale as an action hero, sometimes unconvincing, however nothing harmed the final product. If there is one thing that really bugged me, then it's the ending. I think that they left it like this just hoping for a sequel, since it got no much sense; for instance, where all of these clones would go? How the lead would live? I bet he stole the costly boat to sail with it at the last shot!
On a personal level, I hated ignoring the great potential of the story. I mean what a treasure indeed to make a perfect action that got meanings. In another treatment, (The Island) could have been a high sci-fi, with the same amount of fun, that fits for endless viewings. But it didn't utilize areas like the irony of one rich community that doesn't stand pain and wants to live forever on one side, and another poor one, with identical citizens, that got no will at all, being exploited for the sake of money and living well on the other side. Look also at the missing circle where the differences between the lead and his source; how the lead personifies the good in him, or abstracts his best as a human. Let alone the storyline of (Scarlett Johansson) and her original (the sick model and her baby) which turned into so trivial, rather forgotten, matter. Or the lost concept of the "The Island" itself; does freedom is the lost island of everyone? Does dreaming in a subdued constant society make its dreamer an island? Does humanity became an island in the world of today? You have to notice how ultimately the title was bigger than the final movie. And how this script just intellectually implies, as it has no time except for action and popcorn.
You have to notice also that the movies that speak about closed secret worlds became too many lately. Just remember (The Truman Show - 1999), (The Matrix - 1999), (The Village - 2004).. etc. where the trick is always on, and the people are always ruled by deceiver superiors who own the acknowledge, and control it evilly. I think it's one speech which comes from the fear of locked society, owned by foundations this round, where the human is nothing but a tool in the hands of richer masters, being used without will or consciousness. It's simply not the fear of another communism. No. It's the fear of fascism that got the ugliest of both; the communism and the capitalism. It's clear even in a work that just wants to be the polished product.
(The Island - 2005) is highly entertaining, but it didn't deliver intellectually as it did visually. And it's typical I think, since it's produced by another foundation which needs its products to be as pure as possible, without extra - especially deep - qualities. Now I dream of more intellectual, same entertaining, remake. Hmmm, maybe in another island!